[csaa-forum] CALL FOR PANEL and PAPER PROPOSALS: Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand

[Lisa Gye]

CALL FOR PANEL and PAPER PROPOSALS
Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand   
Screen | History | Memory
2-5 December 2012, Melbourne
 
website: filmhistory2012aunz.com
 
The XVIth Biennial Conference 2012 FHAANZ Conference invites local and
international scholars, archivists and filmmakers to present their
research in the fields of screen history, history and memory on screen,
national and transnational screen histories, and the social and cultural
impact of cinema, television and new media.
 
The 2012 conference is organized into three streams. 
We invite panels and papers on stream topics. Topics include 
but are not limited to:
 
Speculative Screen Histories 
*screen memory and historical memory
*remembering film and television  
*fictional and documentary modes of screen history
*selecting and sampling historical texts
*speculative histories in the remix zone
*retrovision and case histories: Mad Men, The Hour, In Treatment,
Mildred Pierce…
 
 
Decolonizing Screen Memories 
*Fourth Cinema as indigenous, transnational, world cinema
*screen memory and Aboriginal histories
*histories of colonial and postcolonial documentary production
*decolonizing screen aesthetics, affect and performance
*anticolonial collaborations in film, television and new media 
*audiences for Indigenous film and television series
*postcoloniality and national cinemas
 
Human Rights and Animal Ethics on Screen 
 
*Human Rights film festivals & the human rights film
*evolution, nature and animal ethics
*documenting cruelty, atrocity and suffering 
*affect, empathy and humanitarian appeals 
*film, philosophy and the postmodern animal
*anthropocentrism, spectatorship and the animal
*entangled representations of human and animal 
*wildlife documentaries and the reinvention of nature
*animated animals and the pleasure & politics of identification
 
 
Submit queries to fhaanz at vu.edu.au ( mailto:fhaanz at vu.edu,au )
 
Panel proposals
Panels of x 3 speakers, with papers of 20 mins
Please provide a descriptive title for the panel, and nominate a
conference stream 
Provide an abstract of 3 x 100-150 words and a bio of 50 words for each
presenter
Nominate the panel chair and contact person
Panel proposals due: Friday 30 March 2012
Proposed panels will be advised of acceptance by April 27 
Submit panel proposals to fhaanz at vu.edu.au
 
Paper proposals
Please provide a descriptive title for the paper, and nominate a
conference stream if applicable
Provide an abstract of 150 words and a bio of 50 words 
Paper proposals due: Friday 30 March 2012
Submit papers to fhaanz at vu.edu.au
 
Lisa Gye
Senior Lecturer
Media and Communications
Swinburne University of Technology
http://www.lisagye.com
http://motif.swinmc.net
Tel: +613 92148345
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
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